Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July, Bentkowski begins a new challenge as art director for LIFE magazine. "I thought I already had one of the best jobs at Time Inc.," he admits. "But how do you pass up designing LIFE?" Our sister publication is gaining a soothing influence, as well as a first-rate designer. Notes Reporter-Researcher Naushad Mehta, who was in charge of all research for the Constitution project: "Tom has always amazed us with his coolness and calm, even in the rush of our most frenetic schedules." We are going to miss...
...Americans meant tap dancers "laying down iron" in vaudeville. Before Astaire, screen dance was a thundering herd of chorines tapping out a Busby Berkeley abstraction. "I didn't think I had too much of a chance," Astaire would later say -- with good reason. To be sure, he and his sister Adele had worked their way from Omaha through small-time vaudeville to stage stardom in New York and London. But Adele had retired, and at 34, Fred was not obvious star material: a skinny fellow with a reedy voice and an unassuming...
...Veteran Rocker Frank Zappa. A few years ago MTV tried to broaden its appeal by adding the mellower sounds of Lionel Richie, Billy Joel and others; now it has returned to its original emphasis on hard rock and heavy-metal bands, with softer ballads largely relegated to its sister service, VH-1 (available in 20.8 million homes). The channel's format has been diversified with more live programming, sitcoms (reruns of The Monkees and a British import called The Young Ones) and nonmusic inserts, like a series of reports on rock groupies. "We have changed directions," says MTV Entertainment President...
...highway near Wilmington, a truck collided with the family station wagon, killing his wife Neilia, 27, and daughter Naomi, 13 months. His two sons, Beau, 3, and Hunter, 2, were critically injured. Rushing back from Washington, where he had been recruiting staff, Biden considered resigning. Instead, his sister Valerie and her husband moved into his house to care for the boys, and Biden began to commute daily between Wilmington and Washington by train, 90 minutes each way. The difficult routine became so much a hallmark of his Senate career that Biden chose the Wilmington train station to kick...
Madison's mother sings Gospel in church and looks after his father, himself, and his little sister and brother. His father is a bus operator for the Chicago Transit Authority. According to his son, Madison Sample Sr. "went to college for three years. Then I came along. After that he was going from job to job trying to make ends meet... He was interested in sciences also. I used to feel bad about [my father dropping out because I was born...